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film won the Best Film of the Jury at the 24th Sundance Film Festival in 2008.
The film tells the story of a woman involved in smuggling to make money. The heroine's husband ran away from home and took all the money, making life hard for the rest of the family. The heroine goes to find her husband, but the husband is not found but helps an Indian woman to participate in a smuggling. Looking at the difficulties at home, the heroine decides to smuggle with Indian women in order to make a living. In this way, the heroine made money and helped the family pay various expenses, and the whole family was very happy. However, when the heroine transports the stowaways, she abandons a baby and nearly freezes him to death, which makes both of them blame themselves. Through this incident, the heroine discovers that Indian women are not very bad. After that, the heroine's son accidentally burns down the house. In order to buy a house, the heroine decides to do the last smuggling. However, the last transport was not smooth. They first had a dispute with their Shangjia over money, then the car broke down in a frozen river, and then they were chased by the police. In the end, the heroine went to jail for the Indian woman to let her take care of her children.
The story of the film is very simple, and it also returns to the traditional film mode - storytelling. Through the life of the heroine's family, the film shows the cruelty, ruthlessness and indifference between people in the society, just like the cold weather in the film - people freeze to death! This is the theme of the movie, a very popular and popular point of view, so I won't talk about it. Isn't that the case with a lot of movies these days? Expose the reality of the real world and show the hardships of life.
Movie shooting is very mainstream, in line with the consistent tradition of Hollywood, borrowing things to describe people, borrowing scenes to express feelings, quite stereotyped. For example, the heroine's life, bowing her head to reality, women's special attention to children, children in ice and snow, and so on. This way of expression is too normal for me, who has read countless films. My feeling about it can only be described as a failure, and it did not give me any surprises.
In addition, the plot of the film is a bit unrealistic. It is unbelievable that the heroine is willing to sacrifice herself for the Indian woman not long after she has known her. How could she easily trust this person who had only known each other for a few days? What if Indian women don't take care of their children? This kind of plot is really ridiculous. From my point of view, this is completely a fairy tale woven by the directors - it tells people that although the frozen river is cold, the ice and snow always melt. How naive!
The actors are great. The performance of the heroine Melissa Leo is perfect. Although the role is just an ordinary poor woman, her performance is real and vivid, especially her interpretation of the character's desolate and helpless heart is impressive. It can be seen that there are countless good actors in Hollywood, but there is a lack of performance opportunities. The rest of the film is mediocre, and so is Misty Upham, the other heroine, who feels blunt in her performance, as if she can't act.
in conclusion. This is an ordinary, stereotyped mainstream Hollywood movie. Although the atmosphere is excellent and the actors' acting skills are brilliant, the popular plot is still difficult to make it a good movie.
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Frozen.River.2008.BluRay.720p.x264.DTS-WiKi
2012-12-07
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